This is heartless.

[CousinIT]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/us/border-wall-cactuses-arizona.html

LUKEVILLE, Ariz. — Cut down a saguaro cactus in Arizona and you can face years in prison. But over the past several weeks, work crews have been destroying dozens of the protected cactuses, which can live for 200 years, to build a new wall on the southwestern border.

. . .

Dynamite blasts are now echoing throughout lands assigned the highest degree of permanent protection by Congress as workers lay the foundation for the wall. To mix concrete, crews are drawing water from a spring near where ancient bone fragments were unearthed last year.

The work is occurring at sites inside the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt established by proclamation in 1937. The area has been designated by UNESCO, the United Nations cultural organization, as an internationally protected biosphere reserve.

“To state it clearly, we are enduring crimes against humanity,” said Verlon M. José, the governor of the Tohono O’odham in northern Mexico and a former vice chairman of the tribal nation on the American side of the border.

“Tell me where your grandparents are buried and let me dynamite their graves,” said Mr. José, emphasizing how visceral an issue the blasting has become among O’odham-speaking peoples. “This wall is already putting a scar across our heart.”

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This is heartless. To completely destroy the sacred sites of indigenous communities for a pointless border wall is beyond disgraceful. These communities will never be able to recover what was lost in this destruction.

[wishstar]

1. All done only to help prop up the power of one malignant racist

[world wide wally]

4. +1000000

[Ohiogal]

2. Totally disgusting.

I can’t possibly hate Chump and his odious sycophants any more.

[klook]

3. This is so deeply offensive.

I can't even express how heartsick this makes me, for the native peoples of that area and for the ecosystem.

In another 200 years, I hope the wall has turned to dust, the cacti have returned, and the indigenous communities are thriving.

[dweller]

6. i'd like to think in the more immediate future

that fatnixon, and his spawn and numerous other members of his criminal organization are in cages behind insurmountable walls for the rest of their worthless lives ...

hopefully soon,
✌🏼

[stillcool]

5. sick.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. It will take generations to repair all that Trump has destroyed

[spanone]

8. flush the turd november third

we need him gone

[UpInArms]

9. It brings the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyam to mind

The statues were destroyed by dynamite over several weeks, starting on 2 March 2001. The destruction was carried out in stages. Initially, the statues were fired at for several days using anti-aircraft guns and artillery. This caused severe damage, but did not obliterate them. During the destruction, Taliban Information Minister Qudratullah Jamal lamented that, "This work of destruction is not as simple as people might think. You can't knock down the statues by shelling as both are carved into a cliff; they are firmly attached to the mountain". Later, the Taliban placed anti-tank mines at the bottom of the niches, so that when fragments of rock broke off from artillery fire, the statues would receive additional destruction from particles that set off the mines. In the end, the Taliban lowered men down the cliff face and placed explosives into holes in the Buddhas. After one of the explosions failed to obliterate the face of one of the Buddhas, a rocket was launched that left a hole in the remains of the stone head.

[dchill]

10. "Eminent Domain."